It’s been one of the most persistent rumors on the internet since John McCain smartly snuffed Barack Obama’s convention afterglow by doing what the Democrat considered and rejected: naming a woman as his vice presidential partner.

Not only is he way late to the race reporting on this idiotic, unfounded email rumor, but he pens a header for his post that implies that it’s a done deal (ignoring, in the process, the irony that it’s Palin dropping out that’s far more likely) and then proceeds to “investigate” the story like, ya know, it’s real and stuff. I wonder how many times Malcolm has emailed his social security number to “customer servises” at “Citybank”? What a buffoon.